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Gahnite from
Chalk Mountain Mine, Spruce Pine, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Gahnite
Formula:ZnAl2O4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Gahnite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Chalk Mountain Mine, Spruce Pine, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:56736
Long-form Identifier:1:3:56736:5
GUID (UUID V4):20805580-8878-4f22-8821-4397376bf818
Nearest other occurrences of Gahnite
3.7km (2.3 miles) Deer Park Mine, Penland, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
4.0km (2.5 miles) English Mine (English Knob Mine), Spruce Pine, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
6.3km (3.9 miles) Deake Mine, Deake, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
12.0km (7.5 miles) W. C. Burleson Mica Mine (Joe Stevenson Mine), Hawk-Bakersville, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
62.1km (38.6 miles) Elk Knob Mine, Watauga County, North Carolina, USA
86.6km (53.8 miles) Hawkins Branch Cassiterite occurrence (Meadow Creek occurrence), Cleveland County, North Carolina, USA
90.2km (56.0 miles) Ore Knob Mine, Ore Knob, Ashe County, North Carolina, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
Gahnite ZnAl2 O4 c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Cubic. Point Group: 4/m32/m...02 )Σ=0.99 (Al2.01 Si0.01 )Σ=2.02 O4 . (2) Geco mine, Canada; by electron microprobe, average of six...calcite, andradite, willemite (Franklin, New Jersey, USA); corundum, pyrrhotite, högbomite, nigerite, phlogopite...staurolite, cordierite, pyrite, chalcopyrite (Geco mine, Canada). Distribution: Many localities, but most... Abundant at Falun, Sweden. From the Silberberg mine, near Bodenmais, Bavaria, Germany. At Tiriolo, near
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Mica Deposits of the Blue Ridge in North Carolina GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 577 Work done...done in part in cooperation with the North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development and in part...Administration Mica Deposits of the Blue Ridge in North Carolina By FRANK G. LESURE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL... Work done in part in cooperation with the North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development...Granite-_____________________ Muscovite granodiorite of Spruce Pine district-_____ ________________________ Pegmatite
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... ............:....................... 20 Gahnite.---.....-.-.._---....---...---....--....----..-...Bulletin 61. COVELLITE. From the East Greyrock mine, Butte, Mont. Collected by G. W. Tower. Analysis...[BULL. 220. POLYDYMITE. A massive ore from the mine of the Canadian Copper Company, Sudbury, district...Another nickel-iron sulphide, from the Worthington mine, SauTt branch of the Canadian Pacific Railway, 25...STROMEYERITE. From the Silver King mine, Calico, San Bernardino County, Cal. Specific gravity, 6:28. Analysis
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31 University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright © 2004 by University of Nevada Press Photographs...Olivenite, 1.6-cm cluster, Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope district, Pershing County. N. Prenn collection. Photograph... Davis The Goodsprings (Yellow Pine) Mining District, Clark County John C. Kepper 91 References ...Mexican Mine Gold, Majuba Placer Pyromorphite after Galena with Conichalcite Gold, Round Mountain Mine...Almandine-Spessartine Annabergite Gypsum Quartz, Petersen Mountain Heterogenite Quartz (amethyst), faceted Arsenolite
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On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...ALABAMA Iron phosphate mineral locality at Indian Mountain, Alabama (by H. Harwood) 5:241-244 Iron-manganese...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73
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General features____________________________ Coosa County _________ ____________________ Randolph County...Cherokee County_____________________________ 72 Elbert County _____________________________ 75 Hall County__...County_______________________________ 76 Hart County. ___ __ __________________ 77, Lumpkin and Union counti...___________ S3 Pickens County _______-______________________ 83 Rabun County-_____________________________...____________ 86 Troup County ________________________________ 86 Upson County _______________________________
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3i University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright© 2004 by Uni versity of Nevada Press Photographs...te, r.6-cm cluster, Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope district, Pershing County. N. Prenn coJlection. Photograph... Vavis The Goodsprings (Yellow Pine) Mining District, Clark County John C. Kepper MINERAL CATALOG ...Hen1in1orphite Azurile Barite, N1eikJe Mine Barite, '\forthun1berland Mine Bante, Rosebud t1ine Barile v;ith...inclusions Bolt½'OOdite Calcite, Meikle Mine Calcite, Getchell Mine Callaghanite Cassiterite and Hema tile
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State Museum, Albany. North Carolina.. .Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, Chapel Hill. North Dakota... .Dr. A. G...... .Prof. Charles W. Brown, Providence. South Carolina.. .Dr. Earle Sloan, Charleston. South Dakota....See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities: Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson
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......... North Carolina. .......................................................... North Dakota............................................. South Carolina......................................:..........1888. Branner, J. C., The zinc and lead region of north Arkansas: Arkansas Geol. Survey Ann. Kept, for 1892...Fair edition, 1904. Genth, F. A., Minerals of North Carolina: U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 74, 1891. Shannon...1914: Oklahoma Geol. Survey Bull. 22, pt. 2, 1914. Mitchell, John Graham, Minerals of Oregon: Oregon Univ
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made dramatically apparent to us as spectacular mountain ranges, erupting volcanoes, earthquakes and even...be minerals. Microcline, Crystal Peak, Colorado, USA * 12 x 9x 5 om MINERALS: PRODUCTS OF A CHANGING...zeolites. Calcite (septarian nodule), San Juan County, Utah, USA * 18 x 24x Bem 14 | MINERALS: PRODUCTS... Located on an island about 300 km (185 miles) north of Yellowknife, the Acasta River deposit is believed...Metamorphic rocks form deep within Earth, often beneath mountain belts. When igneous or sedimentary rocks are heated
Report (issue)
geology of the east inlet area, southwestern Rocky Mountain Park, Colorado: Golden, Colorado School of Mines...Beryllium deposits of the Mount Antero region, Chaffee County, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Trace Element...Beryllium deposits of the Mount Antero region, Chaffee County, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 982-D...1974, Murataite, a new complex oxide from El Paso County, Colorado: American Mineralogist, v. 59, nos. 1-2...Gate Canyon and Ralston Creek areas, Jefferson County, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 320
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and indexes, particularly the "Bibliographies of North American Geology," covering 1785-1957. These were...recently found in the Tenmile district, Summit County. In his booklet, which today would be classed as...feldspar, and mica, occur in some form in every county in the State. Among mineralogists, Colorado is...mineral belt that extends southwestward from Boulder County to the southern limits of the San Juan Mountains...minerals in the lava flows of North and South Table Mountains, lefferson County, the contact-metamorphic minerals
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commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...61 232 PART The Making 43 II 5 7 3 III Mine PART 267 IV Glossary 279 Bibliography 291...cities, and many of today’s prosperous western county seats began as mining-boom camps. trating sand...Whether you such as those listed alphabetically by county, township, and range in Part II of this book. Where...minerals which make lovely cabinet specimens. old mine western states, to kick up and oxidation,
Book (edition)
GEMSTONES $CS of NORTH AMERICA . In Two Volumes $30.00 GEMSTONES OF NORTH AMERICA In Two Volumes ...REINHOLD BOOK / '- ✓ ( ..., ■ GEMSTONES OF NORTH AMERICA In Two Volumes Volume II T ourmaline...from the Tourmaline Q ueen .1ine, Pala, San Diego County, California. From a pen-and-ink drawing by W. E...lnternatiunal, Inc. F RO. Tl!>PI£CE GEMSTONES of NORTH AMERICA In Two Volumes Volume II John Sinkankas...publication of the first volume of Gemstones of North America in 1959 so much has transpired that the
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and the corresponding citation (Hudson Bay 309 mine). in Ref. 4, line Z, for 670 read 676. 310 in...say that this guarantee did much to deterrepaid. mine the award of the grant. To Mr. W. 0. Wiley, Chairman...Harrisburg, 1875. Sadtler. " The Minerals of North Carolina," U. S. Geol. Sur., Bull. (1891). 74, 119 pp...earlier. Minerals and Mineral Localities of North Carolina. 122 pp., Raleigh, 1881. Gesner (1565). De...1815. Kunz (1895). Gems and Precious Stones of North America, by George Frederick Kunz. First edition
Report (volume)
GEOLOGICAL SUEVEY CHAKLES D. WALCOTT, DIRECTOR Olf NORTH AMERICAN GEOLOGY, PALEONTOLOGY, PETROLOGY, AND MINERALOGY...the manuscript of a Bibliography and Index o'f North American Geology, Paleontology, Petrology, and Mineralogy...Survey. 1 I .... v : BIBLIOGRAPHY AND INDEX OF NORTH AMERICAN GEOLOGY, PALEONTOLOGY, PETROLOGY, AND MINERALOGY...XXXIX, Part 1, 1898. Edinburgh, Scotland. Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society: Journal, Part 1,1898. Raleigh...N. Y. North Carolina, Geological Survey: Bulletin, Nos. 10 and 13, 1897. Raleigh, N. C. North of England
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...................... 1. Rocks from Aroostook County..... ^..................'........... 2. Miscellaneous............................................. North Carolina..............................................1. Elliott County dike............................................... 2. Crittenden County dike............................ Schist from the Aragon iron mine............................... ill 17 .18 18 19................................ 60 2. Sepulchre Mountain........................................... 62
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NORTInHIwo AME A Volumes John Sinkankas _ GEMSTONES OF NORTH AMERICA In Two Volumes ® Volume I Gemstones, of...of all the mineral treasures to be found in North America, are perhaps the most fascinating—and the...worthy of the name. Some, like the emeralds of North Carolina, the colorful and fabulous tourmalines and...above all, easily read and understood, GEMSTONES OF NORTH AMERICA, Volumes I and II, will be welcomed as a...abroad are becoming so scarce and expensive that North America has developed into a major exporter rather
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long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals from somewhere near Washington, Litchfield County, were described...Lake Road occurrence, Faraday Township, Hastings County. In fall 1994, Dan and Shelley Lambert extracted...1995: 582). Madawaska [Faraday] mine near Bow Lake, Hastings County. Some of the world's finest ilmenite
Journal (issue)
about 18 cm tall, and came from the Eureka mine, Tuolumne County, California. The specimen, now in the Smithsonian...PUBLISHING P.O. Box 37072, Tucson, Arizona 85740 USA Richard A. Bideaux, General Partner (602) 297-4862...(Some dealers have used the name “Aldeia do Erne mine,” apparently because Aldeia is the nearest village...there it is a 15-minute hike up a steep trail to the mine. The Mineralogical Record, volume 21, September-October...two principal locations in Brazil: the Sapucaia mine near Governador Valadares and the Taquaral district
Journal (issue)
about 18 cm tall, and came from the Eureka mine, Tuolumne County, California. The specimen, now in the Smithsonian...PUBLISHING P.O. Box 37072, Tucson, Arizona 85740 USA Richard A. Bideaux, General Partner (602) 297-4862...(Some dealers have used the name “Aldeia do Erne mine,” apparently because Aldeia is the nearest village...there it is a 15-minute hike up a steep trail to the mine. The Mineralogical Record, volume 21, September-October...two principal locations in Brazil: the Sapucaia mine near Governador Valadares and the Taquaral district
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Vesuvius, Italy (12, column 2) and SEMSEYITE, Julcani mine, Huancavelica, Peru (#3, column 2). Color, page...sandstone at the Fuernrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely disseminated...in the Cave Hills and Slim Buttes areas, Harding County, South Dakota. BEST REF. IN ENGLISH: Thompson,...at the Little Emma mine, Clear Creek County; at the Enterprise n1ine, Dolores County; and at the Double...Double Header lode , Su1nmit County . rt is also found in Canada, Mexico, Czechoslovakia, and Germany. Acanthite
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transmit herewith the manuscript for an Index to North American Geology, Palentology, Petrology, and Mineralogy.......................................... Rocky Mountain region..........................................regions .................................. Rocky [Mountain region................................................................................. Rocky Mountain region ................................................................................ Rocky Mountain region.......................................
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Director Bulletin 747 GEOLOGIC LITERATURE ON NORTH AMERICA 1785-1918 BY JOHN M. NICKLES PART ll...'> fPs>nP.r r.ovP.r) GEOLOGIC LITERATURE ON NORTH AMERICA, 1785-1918. By JoHN M. NicKLEs. pART II...anonymous papers, placed at the end of Part I Co. county cos. · counties CORPORATE AUTHORS. Am G American...Geographic Society 1 2 GEOLOGIC LITERATURE ON NORTH AMERICA, 1785-1918. Ohio St Univ · Ohio State University...and arachnids: Scudder, 85i Geologic history of North American continent: Hall, 69, 83m; White (C A),
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enter must be obtained to prevent trespass. Old mine workings are dangerous and entering underground...oFtne ato aa Gem Ghd nQkTeane Uva a nes ly ia" mine Ui nrobs inesob cere ts ou ioe tok us 'aaieomolitt...extends from Mexico along the Rocky Mountain Front to possibly the North Slope of Alaska. In New Mexico and...exception of the rhodochrosites of the Sweet Home Mine, Alma, Colorado, which were loaned for photography...Rita Area and the Central Mining District, Grant County Burro Mountains Apache No, 2 District Lake Valley
 
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